We studied the similarities and differences between Brazilian Spiritistic mediums and North American dissociative identity disorder (DID) patients. Twenty-four mediums selected among different Spiritistic organizations in ...

Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are paroxystic and episodic events associated with motor, sensory, mental or autonomic manifestations, which resemble epileptic seizures (ES), but are not caused by epileptogenic ...

Epidemiological data show that up to 20–30% of patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNESs), resembling drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), are referred to tertiary epilepsy centers. Furthermore, both disorders present ...

Estimo importante, por lo tanto, presentar al lector, con una revisión de la información teórica y empírica de este trastorno junto a la de las últimas investigaciones realizadas. Estas, en su conjunto podrán o no mostrar ...

Taking under consideration the existing stigmatization about psychological disorders, especially the dissociative identity disorder, the creation of a comic that works ludically the relation of the character with the ...

Cada día se diagnostican más casos de personas con el Trastorno Disociativo de Identidad, conocido por sus siglas en inglés como DID y hace poco tiempo como “Trastorno de Personalidad Múltiple”, sin embargo es poca la ...

A history of childhood trauma and the presence of dissociative phenomena are considered to be the most important risk factors for psychogenic nonepileptic seizure disorder (PNESD). This case-control study investigated 20 ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the presence of psychopathological symptoms in women victims of domestic violence who seek help at police units offering women's protective services. METHODS: Women aged between 20 and 50 years who ...